
Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and journalist Rudolf Augstein.
Rudolf Augstein

Franz Josef Strauß

Conrad Ahlers

Hans Detlef Becker

Claus Jacobi

Leo Brawand

Siegfried Buback

Elke Maria Carlsson

Marianne Strauß

Konrad Adenauer

Volkmar Hopf

Katharina Augstein

Josef Augstein

Oberst Martin

Frau Jacobi

Sekretärin
Hans Globke
